censer and cover

Lot 875. A carved Qingbai tixi-style vase, meiping, Southern Song dynasty, 13th century; 10 5/8 in. (27 cm.) high, brocade box. Price realised USD 441,000 (Estimate USD 60,000 – USD 80,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2023 The tall, high-shouldered vase is carved overall with scrolling tendrils between double line borders, all under a crackled glaze of pale aquamarine tone that continues over the mouth and ends just above the foot. Provenance: J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4630. ... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 16. A pale green jade censer and cover, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795). Diameter 4 in., 10.2 cm. Lot sold: 81,900 USD (Estimate: 4,000 - 6,000 USD). © Sothebys. the base carved with a five-character seal mark reading Leshoutang yuwan (imperial plaything from the Hall of Happiness and Longevity). Provenance: Christie's London, 19th October 1959, lot 139. Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997). Wou Lien-Pai Museum,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3204. A pale celadon jade gu-form vase, Qing dynasty, 19th century; 71⁄2 in. (19 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 50,000 - HKD 80,000. Price realised HKD 875,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021 Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 April 1997, lot 783A Hong Kong private collection formed in the late 1970s to early 1990s. Lot 3203. A white jade censer and cover, Republic period; 81⁄4 in. (21 cm.) across the handles, stand, box. Estimate HKD 40,000 - HKD... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3047. A rare white jade censer and cover, Qing dynasty, 18th century; 16.2 cm., 6 3/8  in. Estimate 2,500,000 — 3,500,000 HKD. Lot sold 3,160,000 HKD (297,489 EUR). Photo Sotheby's. the lobed sides rising to an incurved rim, all supported on four short hemispherical feet, the sides finely carved in low relief with plants issuing ruyi-shaped flowers and flanked by a pair of handles suspending a loose ring, the handles carved in high relief with an outstretched bat... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3958. A fine carved white jade censer and cover, Qianlong period (1736-1795); 10 in. (25.4 cm.) wide. Estimate 8,000,000 - HKD 10,000,000. Price realised HKD 9,020,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2012.   The rounded censer rests on four cabriole legs and is flanked by a pair of elaborately carved and pierced handles in the form of a ruyi cloud enclosing a Shou character supported on lingzhi branches. The sides are each embellished with a pair of... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3564. A finely carved white jade censer and cover, Qianlong period (1736-1795); 8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) wide. Estimate HKD 2,000,000 - HKD 3,000,000. Price Realized HKD 14,100,000. © Christie's Images Ltd. 2011 The rounded censer resting on three cabriole legs emerging from mythical beast heads and flanked by a pair of dragon handles, carved in relief around the sides with archaistic taotie mask designs divided by six raised vertical notched flanges below a waisted rim... [Lire la suite]

Lot 54. A pale celadon jade censer and cover, Qing dynasty, 18th century; 15.2cm., 6in. Estimate 18,000 — 25,000 GBP. Lot sold 22,500 GBP. Photo Sotheby's. the lobed rounded sides rising from a raised foot to a wide everted rim, with four animal mask-ring handles, the domed cover with pierced panels of bats amongst cloud scrolls, surmounted with a chilong finial, the stone of an even pale celadon tone. Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, London, 11 november... [Lire la suite]

Lot 6. Bronze censer and cover, Ming dynasty, Xuande apocryphal mark, 17th century. Hauteur : 28 cm. Estimate 15 000 € - 20 000 €. Lot sold 38 000 €. Courtesy Asium-Millon. the body of the censer features as a continuous frieze in high relief. The upper section of the censer is decorated in open cloud work depicting two dragons, symbolising masculinity, and two phoenixes, symbolising femininity. From the centre of the censer rises a reticulated shaped ball of clouds from which a dragon... [Lire la suite]

Lot 2714. A small pair of hardstone-inlaid gilt-bronze censers and covers, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795); 13 cm., 5 1/8 in. Estimate 600,000 — 800,000 HKD. Lot sold 740,000 HKD. © Sotheby's 2010 each lobed rectangular body finely cast and chased to each side with leafy lotus strapwork reserved on a ring-punched ground, the broad everted lobed rim inset with a celadon jade and edged with a keyfret band, all raised on four elephant-head legs, the domed... [Lire la suite]

Lot 2609. A fine white jade censer and cover, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795); 21 cm, 8 1/4 in. Estimate 8,500,000 — 10,000,000 HKD. Lot Sold 10,180,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's 2010. the short rounded sides carved in low-relief of a band of two archaistic taotie masks outlined in thin beaded edges rising to a lipped rim, further flanked by a pair of wide archaistic scroll handles, all above three cabriole legs issuing from the mouths of monstrous beasts, the cover... [Lire la suite]